Armed Forces: Housing

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the quality of accommodation for members of the armed forces in the UK.

Derek Twigg: Ministers have received a number of representations from hon. and right hon. Members and members of the public. For example, during the last six months 125 items of correspondence were received.

Community Relations: Religion

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what meetings her officials have had on combating violent extremism in Britain since 2005.

Parmjit Dhanda: Communities and Local Government took on responsibility for the community-led response to violent extremism as part of the machinery of government changes in May 2006. Since then, officials have met regularly with partners across central and local government and internationally, and a wide range of community stakeholders.

Departmental Data Protection

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what exchanges of personal data have taken place between her Department and local authorities in the last 12 months; and what physical or electronic media were used in each such exchange.

Parmjit Dhanda: Communities and Local Government holds some anonymous and aggregated personal data relating to particular policy areas which is collected by local authorities. This is used to support the monitoring implementation and success of these policies. The data consists of information about individuals' personal attributes and circumstances and reasons for service provision but the individual cannot be identified.
	This data is transferred to the Department either using a secure portal or via encrypted discs which are signed for on delivery. Like other Departments, we are currently carrying out a review of arrangements in relation to the sharing and holding of personal data and these specific arrangements will be reviewed as part of that process.

Fires: Chemicals

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when her Department began recording fires involving oxyacetylene as fires of special interest; and how many such fires have been recorded.

Parmjit Dhanda: Communities and Local Government started to record reported incidents involving Acetylene during March 2007, 30 incidents have been recorded to date.

Fires: Chemicals

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research her Department has commissioned on the most effective ways of handling fires involving oxyacetylene.

Parmjit Dhanda: In February 2007, Communities and Local Government published a review of research carried out in investigating how acteylene cylinders involved in a fire are dealt with by fire services around the world and in identifying gaps in existing knowledge. This review is published on the Department's website at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/fire/safetyacetylene

Neighbourhood Wardens: Finance

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the 210 local authorities which received central government funding for community/neighbourhood wardens are still funding the warden schemes.

John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 12 December 2007,  Official Report, column 685W.

Regional Government: Ministers

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether her Department is the lead department co-ordinating the work of regional Ministers.

Parmjit Dhanda: The network of Regional Ministers operates under the joint chairmanship of the Secretaries of State for Communities and Local Government, and Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; with officials from these departments providing a secretariat. The Network has regular meetings to discuss their work.

Agriculture: Subsidies

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions he has had with the Rural Payments Agency on making faster single farm payments to farmers who have been affected by the recent flooding; and if he will make a statement.

Jonathan R Shaw: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my noble Friend Lord Rooker have regular meetings the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) chief executive, during which they confirmed then their support for the significant efforts being made by the Agency, in relation to the 2007 Single Payment Scheme, to make more full payments, to more farmers, earlier than under the 2006 scheme. The announcement by RPA on 10 December, that live testing of the payments system was under way, is an encouraging sign that the Agency is on track to meet its formal targets of making 75 per cent. of full 2007 scheme payments, by value, by the end of March and 90 per cent. by end of May 2008.

Departmental Parliamentary Questions

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many staff work in his Department's parliamentary branch; and what proportion of their time is spent on dealing with  (a) Parliamentary Questions and  (b) correspondence from hon. Members and Peers.

Jonathan R Shaw: There are eight members of staff in parliamentary branch, two of whom work solely on parliamentary questions.
	Correspondence from hon. Members and peers is handled by the Department's customer contact unit.

Fisheries: Navy

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for what reason the number of patrol days carried out by the Hunt Class inshore patrol vessels, Island Class offshore patrol vessels and River Class offshore patrol vessels for the 2006-07 period stated in the answer of 10 December 2007,  Official Report, column 61W, on Fisheries: Navy, were different to those stated in the answer of 22 November 2007,  Official Report, column 1058W.

Jonathan R Shaw: The answers of 22 November and 10 December both stated that the total number of patrol days carried out by patrol vessels of the Fishery Protection Squadron in 2006-07 was 845 days.
	The answer on 10 December on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence recorded 227 days by Island class vessels and 618 days by River class vessels. This should have read 227 days by Hunt class vessels.
	The answer on 22 November on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs recorded 225 days by Hunt class vessels and 620 days by River class vessels.
	The difference in allocation of two days by the two departments resulted from a minor correction to records as a product of staff changes.
	The minor statistical difference between departments has no impact on the payment or the performance of the Fisheries Protection Squadron during that period.

Fisheries: Protection

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 11 December 2007,  Official Report, column 409W, on Fisheries: Protection, 
	(1)  whether the Ministry of Defence provides replacement vessels in the event of a Davit fault; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  under what circumstances the Ministry of Defence would provide replacement vessels; what his definition is of extended time off task; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  for how many patrol days a River Class offshore patrol vessel would need to be unavailable for the Ministry of Defence to provide a replacement; and if he will make a statement.

Jonathan R Shaw: There is no specific requirement for the Ministry of Defence to provide a replacement patrol vessel in the event of a Davit fault. It is difficult to be precise as to how many patrol days would need to be missed before a replacement vessel could be provided. Provision of a replacement vessel will depend on a number of operational factors including:
	(i) the time that a River Class vessel is off task or unable to undertake full operational duties;
	(ii) the availability of a suitable replacement ship and crew with British Sea Fisheries Officers on board; and
	(iii) the importance operationally at the time of having full fisheries patrol capability available.
	Time off task is regarded as any time when the patrol vessel is not undertaking patrol activity at sea either because of routine stand-off or for other reasons, for example, technical problems.

Nitrate Sensitive Areas

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  what estimate he has made of the cost to the agricultural industry of the nitrate vulnerable zone consultation;
	(2)  what estimate he has made of the  (a) financial costs and  (b) environmental costs of proposals arising from the nitrate vulnerable zone consultation; and what assessment he has made of the compatibility of those proposals with other schemes to establish wintered cover crops.

Phil Woolas: the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) published in support of the consultation on the implementation of the nitrates directive in England sets out my Department's assessment of the likely financial and environmental impacts of the proposed action programme measures.
	The partial RIA estimates that the likely financial impact on agriculture of implementing the proposed measures would be within the range of £52.8 million to £105.5 million per year. This assumes that the action programme is applied within proposed nitrate vulnerable zones covering 70 per cent. of England, and costs would be higher if the decision is taken to apply the action programme to the whole of England. These costs could be reduced if DEFRA is successful in obtaining a derogation from the 170kgN/ha/yr whole farm limit for livestock manures—one of the more burdensome requirements of the proposals.
	Estimates of the impact of the main measures on losses of pollutants from agriculture are provided in the following table.
	
		
			   Percentage change in pollutant losses 
			 Nitrate -5.5 to -15.5 
			 Phosphorus 0 to -4.5 
			 Ammonia 0.2 to 2.0 
		
	
	This assessment does not cover all the action programme measures, and therefore the anticipated reduction in nitrate and phosphorus is expected to be greater.
	My Department is aware of links between the proposed cover crops measure and the maintenance of overwintered stubbles, as required by some environmental stewardship agreements. Officials are working with stakeholders to ensure that implementation of this measure is compatible with the requirements of existing agreements.

Severn Estuary: Nature Conservation

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when the Severn Estuary was notified to the European Commission as a candidate special area of conservation as defined under the Habitats Directive; and if he will make a statement.

Joan Ruddock: The Severn estuary was notified to the European Commission as a candidate special area of conservation, as defined under the habitats directive, on 31 August 2007.

Wellbeing Indicators Group

Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  what work the Wellbeing Indicators Group has undertaken;
	(2)  whether the Wellbeing Indicators Group has  (a) a business plan and  (b) objectives;
	(3)  what the  (a) titles and  (b) qualifications are of the academics on the Wellbeing Indicators Group;
	(4)  what role the Wellbeing Indicators Group has in the formulation of Government policy; what cross-departmental representation the group has; and if he will make a statement;
	(5)  how many  (a) staff and  (b) members the Wellbeing Indicators Group has;
	(6)  what the budget of the Wellbeing Indicators Group has been in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement.

Phil Woolas: The Wellbeing Indicators Group has provided technical advice and co-ordination on the establishment of measures of wellbeing for inclusion in the UK Government's sustainable development indicators, as committed to in the UK Government's Sustainable Development Strategy (2005) and in the UK Framework for Sustainable Development shared with the devolved administrations.
	The Wellbeing Indicators Group has agreed terms of reference.
	Academic representatives on the Wellbeing Indicators Group are currently:
	Tim Jackson—Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey; and also sits on the Sustainable Development Commission;
	Paul Dolan—Professor of Economics at Imperial College, University of London;
	Nic Marks MSc, MA—Founder of the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation.
	The Wellbeing Indicators Group does not advise on policy formulation; its role is to advise on how well-being might be measured. Information on the use of indicators and concepts of well-being in policy can be found on the Government's Sustainable development website:
	www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/what/priority/wellbeing/index.htm
	The following central Government Departments and administrations have been represented in the Wellbeing Indicators Group:
	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;
	Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform;
	Department for Children, Schools and Families;
	Department for Communities and Local Government;
	Department for Culture, Media and Sport;
	Department for Health;
	Home Office;
	Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills;
	Department for Transport;
	Department for Work and Pensions;
	Office of National Statistics;
	Scottish Government;
	Welsh Assembly Government;
	Northern Ireland Assembly.
	DEFRA chairs and provides the secretariat for the Wellbeing Indicators Group, which principally involves two members of staff and accounts for only a small proportion of the time of each. There are around 25 individuals attending meetings or receiving papers.
	The Wellbeing Indicators Group does not have its own budget allocation and cannot incur expenditure. The group's inception was in December 2006 and it has met five times.

Children: Day Care

Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was provided for childcare within Copeland in each of the last 10 years.

Beverley Hughes: The data on funding for child care cannot be broken down by constituency. The information provided in the following table is for Cumbria local authority.
	
		
			   Child care expenditure 
			 1997-98 4.8 
			 1998-99 11.4 
			 1999-2000 12.5 
			 2000-01 16.6 
			 2001-02 18.3 
			 2002-03 19.1 
			 2003-04 27.5 
			 2004-05 29.8 
			 2005-06 33.7 
			 2006-07 36.7 
			 2007-08 41.0 
			  Notes: 1. Extra funding through the School Standards Grant and Standards Fund is not included in the figures as it is not possible to identify how much of these grants are spent on the under 5s. 2. The data include Under 5s and Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare (Revenue and Capital) elements. 3. For the under 5s element included in the total three different funding methods existed between 1997-98 and 2007-08: Prior to 2003-04, Early Education funding for four-year-olds was via School Spending Assessments (SSA). Places for three-year-olds in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors were funded directly via Nursery Education Grant (NEG). New three-year-old places created in the maintained sector were funded via SSA. Between 2003-04 and 2005-06 LAs received funding to provide free nursery education for three and four-year-olds through the under-fives sub-block of their Education Formula Spending Share (EFSS). From 2006-07 LAs receive funding for all three to 15-year-olds through the DSG. Funding for under 5s is not separately identified as it is up to local authorities to decide how to distribute their funding. 4. The Sure Start Early Years and Childcare data source is audited returns from the local authority. For years up to and including 2001-02, funding allocation have been quoted as audited data are not available.

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the average cost of child care in each quarter since 1997, broken down by region.

Beverley Hughes: The information is not available in the form requested. Data on the average hourly costs of childcare from Ofsted registered providers is collected as part of the childcare and early years providers survey. The figures on average hourly cost by region from the 2006 childcare and early years providers survey are provided in the following table. Figures are not available for earlier years.
	
		
			  Average hourly fees charged by region 
			   Full day are  Sessional  After school clubs  Holiday clubs  Childminders 
			 Overall average hourly fee 2.70 1.90 2.30 1.70 3.20 
			 East Midlands 2.70 1.60 2.30 1.20 2.90 
			 East 2.60 2.00 2.50 1.70 3.30 
			 London 2.90 2.10 2.00 1.40 3.90 
			 North East, Yorkshire and Humberside 2.60 1.60 2.30 1.30 3.00 
			 North West 2.60 1.60 2.10 1.50 2.90 
			 South East 2.80 2.20 2.40 1.60 3.40 
			 SouthWest 2.80 1.90 2.30 1.50 3.10 
			 West Midlands 2.70 2.40 2.40 1.20 2.80 
		
	
	The fees data collected in this survey should be treated with caution as the figures have been derived from a number of variables. In addition a large number of providers who responded to the survey were unwilling or unable to provide details on the fees they charged.

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what definition of a child care place his Department uses.

Beverley Hughes: Childcare in England is defined in legislation for the first time in Section 18 of the Childcare Act 2006. This defines childcare as, "any form of care for a child" including "education ... and any other supervised activity" but excluding:
	education or activities provided by a school for a pupil during school hours, unless that pupil has not yet started key stage 1 (thereby including nursery and reception classes);
	care provided for a child by a parent, step-parent or person with parental responsibility; or any relative; or foster parent (local authority or private); or
	care provided by a children's home, a care home, a hospital or a residential family centre, a young offenders' institution, a secure training centre, or a secure care home within any of those establishments.

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  what forecast he has made of the number of child care places available in each year to 2011, broken down by region;
	(2)  what forecast he has made of the average number of hours of childcare that will be taken up by a family using childcare in each of the next 10 years, broken down by  (a) income decile,  (b) ethnicity and  (c) region.

Beverley Hughes: Section 11 of the Childcare Act 2006, which came into force in April 2007, placed a duty on local authorities to complete a child care sufficiency assessment before April 2008. They will have to complete an assessment at least every three years, and keep it under review between assessments, especially where there are key demographic changes or as new data become available.
	The assessment process will give local authorities the evidence and information they need to facilitate and shape a child care market that is flexible, sustainable and responsive to parents' needs. It will also help local authorities to develop their strategies for meeting the new duty to secure sufficient child care which will start in April 2008.

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what forecast he has made of the number of  (a) one and  (b) two parent families taking up childcare places in each quarter in each of the next 10 years, broken down by (i) income decile, (ii) ethnicity and (iii) region, (iv) family size.

Beverley Hughes: Section 11 of the Childcare Act 2006, which came into force in April 2007, placed a duty on local authorities to complete a child care sufficiency assessment before April 2008. They will have to complete an assessment at least every three years, and keep it under review between assessments, especially where there are key demographic changes or as new data become available.
	The assessment process will give local authorities the evidence and information they need to facilitate and shape a child care market that is flexible, sustainable and responsive to parents' needs. It will also help local authorities to develop their strategies for meeting the new duty to secure sufficient child care which will start in April 2008.
	Estimates of the proportion of one and two parent families taking up child care places in 2004 by household income, ethnic group, region and family size are available from the 2004 Parents' Childcare Survey(1) and these figures are provided in the following table.
	(1) Childcare and Early Years Provision: A Study of Parents' Use, Views and Experiences, Research Report 723; DfES. Bryson, C., Kazimirski, A. and Southwood, H. (2006). This report is available at:
	http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR723.pdf
	
		
			  Proportion of lone parents and couples that used child care in the last year by household income, ethnicity, region and family size 
			  Percentage 
			   Couples  Lone parents 
			 Under £10,000 75 81 
			 £10,000-£19,999 82 88 
			 £20,000-£31,999 88 92 
			 £32,000+ 92 88 
			
			 White 89 86 
			 Black and Minority Ethnic Groups 75 80 
			
			 East Midlands 87 80 
			 East of England 89 83 
			 London 77 78 
			 North East 87 96 
			 North West 84 79 
			 South East 93 90 
			 South West 89 87 
			 West Midlands 87 87 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber 88 90 
			
			 1 child 82 82 
			 2 children 89 86 
			 3 or more children 91 89 
			
			 All families 87 85

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many hours of child care on average a family using childcare received in each year since 1997, broken down by  (a) income decile,  (b) ethnicity and  (c) region.

Beverley Hughes: The Parents' Childcare Survey collects information on hours of child care used by all children in the family in the last week. Details about number of hours of childcare used in the last year are not collected as this would place too great a burden on respondents.
	The 2004 Parents' Childcare Survey(1) estimated that on average each family using child care used 26 hours of child care in the week before their interview.
	The average number of hours of child care used in the last week by household income, ethnic group and region is shown in the following table. Income deciles cannot be calculated as the income data are collected in bands rather than actual amounts.
	Estimates in this form are not available for earlier years.
	(1) Childcare and Early Years Provision: A Study of Parents' Use, Views and Experiences, Research Report 723; DfES. Bryson, C., Kazimirski, A. and Southwood, H. (2006). This report is available at:
	http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR723.pdf
	
		
			  Average hours of child care used in the last week, among all families using child care, by household income, ethnicity and region 
			   Mean hours of childcare used 
			 Under £10,000 26 
			 £10,000-£19,999 28 
			 £20,000-£31,999 24 
			 £32,000+ 27 
			   
			 White 26 
			 Black and Minority Ethnic Group 27 
			   
			 North East 26 
			 North West 27 
			 Yorkshire and Humber 26 
			 East Midlands 26 
			 West Midlands 28 
			 East 24 
			 London 28 
			 South East 27 
			 South West 22 
			   
			 All families 26

Children: Day Care

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the average cost of an hour of childcare from an Ofsted registered provider, broken down by region.

Beverley Hughes: Data on the average hourly costs of childcare from Ofsted registered providers is collected as part of the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey. The following table shows the estimated average hourly fees charged by Ofsted registered childcare providers by region, based on the 2006 childcare and early years providers survey.
	
		
			  Average hourly fees charged by region 
			   Full day care  Sessional  After school clubs  Holiday clubs  Childminders 
			 Overall average hourly fee 2.70 1.90 2.30 1.70 3.20 
			 East Midlands 2.70 1.60 2.30 1.20 2.90 
			 East 2.60 2.00 2.50 1.70 3.30 
			 London 2.90 2.10 2.00 1.40 3.90 
			 North East, Yorkshire and Humberside 2.60 1.60 2.30 1.30 3.00 
			 NorthWest 2.60 1.60 2.10 1.50 2.90 
			 South East 2.80 2.20 2.40 1.60 3.40 
			 SouthWest 2.80 1.90 2.30 1.50 3.10 
			 West Midlands 2.70 2.40 2.40 1.20 2.80 
		
	
	The fees data collected in this survey should be treated with caution as the figures have been derived from a number of variables. In addition a large number of providers who responded to the survey were unwilling or unable to provide details on the fees they charged.

Departmental Publicity

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent by his Department on advertising in the last 12 months.

Kevin Brennan: In 2006-07 the Department (then the Department for Education and Skills) spent £6.265 million on advertising as part of information campaigns. Additionally, the Department's spend in advertising vacancies at senior civil service level was for the last financial year was £97,605.00. The costs for advertising vacancies below senior civil service level are not recorded in the same way and figures could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Nurseries: Copeland

Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many free nursery places have been provided within Copeland over the last five years.

Beverley Hughes: The available information is shown in the table.
	The table provides information about the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds in Copeland parliamentary constituency area. Data is provided for 2004-07 only because data are not available at constituency level for 2003.
	
		
			  Number of part-time funded places( 1, 2, 3)  filled by three and four-year-olds, parliamentary constituency: Copeland, position in January 
			   Three-year-olds  Four-year-olds 
			   Maintained nursery and primary schools( 4)  Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers( 5)  Total three-year-olds  Maintained nursery and primary schools( 6)  Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers( 7)  Total four-year-olds 
			 2004 380 240 630 630 90 720 
			 2005 400 250 640 610 90 690 
			 2006 400 240 630 580 100 690 
			 2007 390 270 660 600 90 690 
			 (1) A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. (2) Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. (3) Prior to 2004, information on early education places was derived from returns made by local authorities as part of the nursery education grant (NEG) data collection exercise. These data were collected at local authority level, therefore, data for this parliamentary constituency for 2003 is not available. (4) Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Schools Census. (5) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Schools Census. (6) Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Schools Census. (7) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Schools Census. 
		
	
	The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release (SFR) 19/2007 "Provision for children under five years of age in England: January 2007", available on my Department's website at www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/

Sure Start Programme: Copeland

Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  how much funding to support the work of Surestart within Copeland has been provided over the last five years;
	(2)  how many families have accessed health and support from the Surestart programme within Copeland over the last five years.

Beverley Hughes: The Sure Start Local Programme in Whitehaven, Copeland, received revenue and capital funding directly from the then Department for Education and Skills until March 2006. Since April 2006 revenue funding for all Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) has been included in the General Sure Start Grant allocated to local authorities.
	Funding for Copeland is therefore not allocated separately but is included in Cumbria county council's General Sure Start Grant (from April 2008 the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant) which includes revenue and capital for Sure Start Children's Centres. Local authorities are responsible for allocating the children's centre funding that they receive from my Department to the Sure Start Children's Centres in their area. In 2006-07 this grant included 3,482,237 ringfenced revenue funding to support five SSLPs in Cumbria. Cumbria county council, like all other local authorities with ringfenced SSLP funding, has the freedom to determine the level of resource for each individual SSLP in its area. The following table shows allocations for the five financial years between 2002 and 2007.
	
		
			  Cumbria Sure Start allocations 
			   Revenue  Capital 
			   Copeland/Whitehaven  All Sure Start local programmes in Cumbria  All Sure Start children's centres in Cumbria  Copeland/Whitehaven  All Sure Start children's centres in Cumbria 
			 2002-06(1) 3,294,487 — 831,214 332,196 3,051,844 
			 2006-07(2)  3,482,237 2,353,801  2,277,971 
			 (1) Figures for 'Copeland/Whitehaven' relate to the revenue and capital grant allocated directly to the Sure Start Local programme in Whitehaven for the four financial years between 2002 and 2006. Figures for 'All Sure Start Children's Centres in Cumbria' show revenue and capital funding for the two financial years between 2004 and 2006. (2) The capital allocation for 'All Children's Centres in Cumbria' in 2006-07 includes capital funding for childcare sustainability and extended schools as well as Sure Start Children's Centres. The local authority had the flexibility to decide how much of this capital funding it spent on centres. 
		
	
	Data on the number of families accessing health and support services in Sure Start centres is not collected centrally. Sure Start Whitehaven was originally set up to support 706 children under four and their families, but when it became a Sure Start Children's Centre in 2005 its 'catchment area' was increased to support 900 children under five and their families. Cumbria county council has developed sixteen Sure Start Children's Centres, four of which (including the one based on Sure Start Whitehaven) are in the Copeland area. According to information from Cumbria county council these four centres serve 1,753 children under five and their families.

Truancy

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in  (a) primary and  (b) secondary schools have been classed as persistent truants in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Kevin Brennan: Data which enabled analysis of absence data to include information on persistent absentees was collected for the first time, from secondary schools only, for the academic year 2005/06. The information was published as part of SFR 11/2007 which can be found at:
	http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000718/index.shtml
	The latest published data covers autumn term 2006 and spring term 2007 and includes data for primary schools. This was published as part of SFR 36/11 and can be found at:
	http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000756/index.shtml

Departmental Publicity

Philip Hammond: To ask the Prime Minister how much his Office spent on managing its corporate identify in the last 12 month period for which figures are available.

Gordon Brown: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office (Gillian Merron) on 7 January 2008,  Official Report, column 86W.

Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the outcome has been of the examination of individual liability through the review of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974, with reference to the statement of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 16 May 2007,  Official Report, column 705, on corporate manslaughter and homicide.

Anne McGuire: I have been asked to reply.
	The Government are keeping under review the need for further legislation placing duties on individual directors.
	Following its review in 2006, the Health and Safety Commission took steps to strengthen the existing arrangements on directors' responsibilities for health and safety. The Commission will evaluate the impact on directors' behaviour, of these steps in the context of wider developments such as the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, and advise Ministers.

Land Registry

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his timetable is for the settlement of the pay award for 2007 for Land Registry staff; for what reasons the settlement has not yet been reached; what the timetable is for the 2008 settlement; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Wills: Land Registry made a formal pay offer to the Unions on 21 December and is aiming to pay the award to staff in February 2008.
	After the publication of the remit guidance on preliminary meetings were held with the Unions to obtain their views on what Land Registry should request in its pay remit. The pay remit was initially submitted to the Treasury on 10 August 2007 and, after correspondence with Treasury officials, was resubmitted on 5 October 2007. Land Registry staff have been kept regularly informed of progress of the pay review. Clearance of the pay remit was received from the Treasury on 3 December 2007. Meetings were then held with the Unions on 6 December, 11 December and 19 December.
	Until the 2007 pay review is settled, Land Registry will continue to apply the rules agreed for the 2006 pay settlement that ended on 31 May 2007.
	Land Registry is not in a position to confirm the timetable for the 2008 pay award. However, the target settlement date remains 1 June 2008 and Land Registry will do its utmost to work with the Unions to reach a conclusion as close to 1 June as possible.

Voting Rights

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to ensure that 100 per cent. of identifiers of postal votes are checked in election counts for the 2008 local and London elections.

Bridget Prentice: Returning officers are currently required to check personal identifiers on at least 20 per cent. of returned postal votes at elections though they have discretion to check a higher proportion, or all, of the returned postal votes. The Government have indicated in their response to the Electoral Commission's evaluation report 'The introduction of absent voting personal identifiers in England and Wales'(www.justice.gov.uk/publications/absent-voting-identifiers.htm) that it agrees with the Commission that no changes to the legislation for the checking of identifiers at elections should be contemplated for implementation in England and Wales prior to 31 May 2008. It is therefore not planned to mandate 100 per cent. checking of returned postal votes at the elections scheduled for May 2008. The Government are committed to the principle that 100 per cent. of returned postal votes should be checked, and work with the Electoral Commission, electoral administrators and software suppliers in order to establish when it will be appropriate and safe to mandate 100 per cent. checking of returned postal votes.

Children: Maintenance

Ben Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what procedures will be put in place to monitor the private child maintenance arrangements included in the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill.

James Plaskitt: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission's Information and Support Service will help parents to put in place effective private arrangements by providing information on how to review, renegotiate or re-establish arrangements if they breakdown. We expect the Commission will provide parents with a template enabling them to calculate, record and agree the terms of their arrangement between themselves. We recognise that maintenance arrangements can last for many years and therefore expect the Commission will also encourage parents to re-contact the Information and Support Service at any point if their arrangement breaks down. Help at this point may include supporting parents across to the statutory maintenance service for a more formal and enforceable arrangement.
	We are also committed to evaluating how the objectives of the redesigned system are being met including looking at the numbers of effective voluntary arrangements. This will be through both qualitative and quantitative research as well as the use of surveys such as the Family Resources Survey.

Departmental Equal Opportunities

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to  (a) promote age diversity in the workplace and  (b) enable older people to gain equal access to training opportunities.

Mike O'Brien: Since 2000, through our Age Positive initiative, we have been strongly promoting the business benefits of employing older people as part of a mixed age workforce.
	Between May 2005 and October 2006 the DWP ran the 'Be Ready' National Guidance campaign to prepare employers for the introduction of workplace age discrimination legislation on 1 October 2006. The launch commenced with a mailing of basic information to 1.4million employers. The campaign was designed both to raise awareness of age discrimination legislation, and to provide practical guidance to help employers become more age diverse in their employment practices.
	The 'Be Ready' materials were developed with the support and advice of the Age Partnership Group, which consists of leading business and Government bodies including CBI, TUC, Chambers of Commerce, CIPD, Institute of Directors, DBERR and ACAS. Many of the members and a number of key trade sector organisations worked with us to actively promote the materials through their own employer networks.
	Through our Age Positive initiative we are continuing to promote to employers the benefits of employing older people as part of a mixed age workforce and the adoption of flexible work and retirement policies.
	Opportunities for older people to learn new skills in a changing labour market are essential. We are working with the Department of Innovation Universities and Skills to consider how older workers can be better supported to stay in work.
	There is a wealth of non-age related support already available which can benefit all workers, including older workers, and those seeking to return to the labour market. The level 2 entitlement, Train to Gain, Skills for Life, Information Advice and Guidance, New Deal for Skills and the development of Skills Accounts are all age neutral. Adult learning grant is also available to people over the age of 25. The LSC have allocated a further £16.7 million for adult apprenticeships in 2007-08 and Government will invest £90 million in total over the CSR period to support an additional 30,000 adult apprenticeship places.

Minimum Wage

Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many London-based staff are employed by his Department on the national minimum wage.

Anne McGuire: There are no London-based staff employed by DWP that are on the national minimum wage. The pay scale minima for all DWP pay scales are set at a higher level.

Social Security Benefits: Personal Records

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what personal account data has been provided by his Department to the National Audit Office in the last 12 months.

Anne McGuire: holding answer 26 November 2007
	As required under the National Audit Office Act of 1983 and the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, the Department provides access to its records relating to the income, expenditure and liabilities appearing in its accounts. The National Audit Office has regular and routine access to all departmental records, including individual records which contain personal account data.

Antarctic

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has raised concerns with the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat on pollution from the sinking of a passenger cruise vessel in Antarctic waters.

Meg Munn: The UK has not raised any concerns with the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat on this issue as the Secretariat has no executive powers to take action. This is a matter for Treaty Parties. We have consulted experts from the British Antarctic Survey, whose initial view is that the environmental impacts from the vessel are likely to be minimal. The M/S Explorer used marine gas oil, which is a light non-persistent fuel. The ship sank in open water, some 50 nautical miles from the nearest point of land and any penguin or seabird colonies. There have been reports of fuel leakage, but this has been dissipating quickly and evaporating in the open water. HMS "Endurance" is due to arrive in Antarctica shortly and she will use swath bathymetry to accurately locate the position of the vessel on the seabed and report on any visible signs of pollution.
	Tourism and cruise ship safety in Antarctica will be major discussion topics at the next Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Kiev in June 2008. The UK will continue to engage folly with other Treaty Parties in these discussions and will pursue its proposals for measures to strengthen the contingency plans of cruise ships in the Antarctic.

Antarctic

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he plans to make a territorial claim on Antarctica; and what advice he has received on potential conflicts with the Antarctic Treaty Act.

Meg Munn: The UK has no plans to make any new territorial claim on Antarctica; nor would it do so as that would be contrary to the Antarctic treaty.
	The UK has not made any announcements, or final decisions, about any approach to the UN Commission for the limits of continental shelf regarding delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf pertaining to the British Antarctic Territory. The UK will make its intentions known to the Commission prior to the deadline in 2009.
	In making any decision to submit information to the UN Commission for the limits of continental shelf, we will of course respect our obligations under the Antarctic treaty and related agreements. We remain fully committed to the treaty, including its protocol on Environmental Protection 1991, which prohibits indefinitely all activity related to mineral resources, other than scientific research, within the treaty area.

Armenia: Genocide

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what  (a) discussions he has had with and  (b) representations he has received from the Armenian Government on formally acknowledging the loss of life in Armenia between 1915 and 1923 as genocide.

Jim Murphy: The Armenian Government are aware of the Government's position on the events at the beginning of the last century in which so many ethnic Armenians lives were lost. The Armenian Government have not made representations to the Government to change their position.

Departmental Data Protection

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the processing of personal data outside  (a) the United Kingdom and  (b) the European economic area.

Meg Munn: By the nature of its function the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) must process personal data both within and outside the United Kingdom and the European economic area. Whether this is carried out by FCO officials or by commercial partners, FCO guidance is written to ensure that all personal data are handled in a way that complies with our obligations under UK law.

Members: Correspondence

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many letters his Department received from hon. Members and Peers in each session of Parliament since 1997.

Meg Munn: The Cabinet Office, on an annual basis, publishes a report to Parliament on the performance of Departments in replying to hon. Members/peers correspondence. Information relating to 2007 will be published as soon as it has been collated. The report for 2006 was published on 28 March 2007,  Official Report, columns 101-04WS. Reports for earlier years are available in the Library of the House.

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 10 December 2007,  Official Report, columns 161-2W, on Middle East: peace negotiations, how much has been spent on the  (a) salaries,  (b) travel costs and  (c) other costs of the four members of staff who have been seconded to Mr Blair's team.

Kim Howells: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has seconded: one Executive Officer equivalent; one Higher Executive Officer equivalent; and one Senior Civil Servant equivalent to work in the right hon. Tony Blair's office. The FCO is funding their salaries. The Department for International Development has seconded one Principal Officer—grade six and is funding this salary, allowances and accommodation costs. It would not be appropriate to give salary details as to do so could reveal individuals' salaries.
	Neither the FCO or Department for International Development is responsible for ongoing travel or incidental costs.

National Identity Register

Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans his Department has to make use of data on the National Identity Register when it is established; and what the estimated cost to his Department of that use is.

Meg Munn: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office will be working with the Home Office, prior to the introduction of the National Identity Scheme, to establish how identity information held, on the proposed National Identity Register, might be used to provide easier access to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's services for our customers. It is too early in the process to establish the detailed costs and benefits.

Entry Clearances: Employment

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research she has  (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the type of work undertaken in the UK by non-EU citizens who have obtained leave to enter as highly skilled or skilled workers; and what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of skilled workers who are working in the skill sectors relating to the skills on the basis of which they were given leave to enter.

Liam Byrne: Highly skilled non-EU workers can apply to enter the UK under the highly skilled migrant programme (HSMP). HSMP migrants have free access to the labour market and are not given leave to enter to work in a specific skill sector. However, as part of our review of the HSMP changes we introduced last December, we have been collecting data on occupations self-reported by successful applicants extending their stay as HSMP migrants. Review data will be included in the impact assessment for tier 1 of the new points-based system which will be published before the tier is implemented this year.
	 Work permit system (for skilled workers)
	Skilled non-EU workers with a job offer can apply to enter the UK under the work permit system. Under the terms of their leave, work permit migrants must remain with the employer who applied for their work permit. Should the migrant wish to switch employer, they will need to apply for a variation of leave and the new employer will need to obtain a work permit for them. This means that all work permit migrants should be working in the sectors relating to the skills on the basis of which they were given leave to enter.
	We have previously released, in answer to a freedom of information request, data relating to approved work permit applications broken down by the 20 most frequent occupations as follows:
	The following table shows the number of approved work permit applications, broken down by the 20 most frequent occupations, from January 2004 to December 2005.
	
		
			  Occupation  2004  2005  Total 
			 Nurse 29,185 22,406 51,591 
			 Other manager-related occupation 14,697 14,795 29,492 
			 Musician 12,769 12,783 25,552 
			 Other health/medical occupation 13,585 9,758 23,343 
			 Other IT related occupation 9,512 10,615 20,127 
			 Software engineer 6,764 6,771 13,535 
			 Chef 6,365 4,977 11,342 
			 Other financial occupation 5,007 5,226 10,233 
			 Teacher (school/college) 5,101 4,334 9,435 
			 Other engineer occupation 4,223 5,037 9,260 
			 Researcher 4,205 4,299 8,504 
			 Doctor 4,392 3,842 8,234 
			 Singer 3,083 2,769 5,852 
			 Kitchen assistant (SBS) 4,290 508 4,798 
			 Analyst programmer 2,486 2,122 4,608 
			 System analyst 2,284 2,238 4,522 
			 Technician (music) 2,062 2,138 4,200 
			 Other hotel cat occupation 1,858 1,576 3,434 
			 Dancer (other) 1,672 1,680 3,352 
			 Manager (ent-related) 1,534 1,596 3,130 
			 Total top 20 135,074 119,470 254,544 
			 Others 45,666 41,186 86,852 
			 Total 180,740 160,656 341,396 
			  Note: The number of approved work permit applications does not equal numbers of people entering the UK to work but includes, for example, extension applications and work permits issued for a change of employment.

Genetics: Databases

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of people whose DNA records are held on the National Police Database have  (a) a criminal record,  (b) been the subject of wrongful arrest and  (c) been given a custodial sentence.

Meg Hillier: In relation to the proportion of people whose DNA records are held on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) who have a criminal record, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Featherstone) on 13 December 2007,  Official Report, column 761W. This gives figures for the number of persons with a profile on the NDNAD sampled by police forces in England and Wales who have a conviction, caution, formal warning or reprimand recorded on the PNC i.e. who have a criminal record. No data are held centrally on the number of persons with a DNA profile on the NDNAD who have been the subject of a wrongful arrest. No recent data are available on the proportion of people whose DNA records are held on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) who have a conviction and who have been given a custodial sentence. These data could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Members' Correspondence

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many letters her Department received from hon. Members and Peers in each session of Parliament since 1997.

Tony McNulty: The Cabinet Office, on an annual basis, publishes a report to Parliament on the performance of departments in replying to Members/Peers correspondence. Information relating to 2007 will be published as soon as it has been collated. The report for 2006 was published on 28 March 2007,  Official Report, columns 101-04WS. Reports for earlier years are available in the Library of the House.

Terrorism: Control Orders

David Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who have been acquitted of terrorism charges are subject to control orders restricting their movements.

Tony McNulty: We are not prepared to say how many people who have been acquitted of terrorism charges are subject to control orders restricting their movements. This is because of the need to protect controlled person's identities (most controlled persons are subject to an anonymity order imposed by the court which prohibits us from publishing information that would allow the public to identify him as being subject to a control order) and the national security sensitivity of individual cases.

Cervical Cancer: Screening

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the time taken by each primary care trust to inform women of the results of their cervical smear tests; and if he will make a statement.

Ann Keen: The information requested is not collected, however we do know the time from the cervical sample being taken to the availability of the test result, shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Cervical screening programme: time from screening to availability of result by strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) 2006-07 
			  Number and percentage 
			 Total letters sent by PCT (=100%)( 1)  Up to 4 weeks (%)  >4 weeks up to 6 weeks (%)  >6 weeks up to 8 weeks (%)  >8 weeks up to 10 weeks (%)  >10 weeks up to 12 weeks (%)'  Over 12 weeks (%)  Letters not sent by PCT 
			   England 3,353,285 48.3 25.8 13.6 7.1 3.7 1.6 270,383 
			
			 030  North East SHA 165,701 43.0 19.3 18.8 12.9 5.4 0.6 26,003 
			  5E1 North Tees PCT 13,085 14.5 52.4 31.3 1.5 0.2 0.1 380 
			  5D7 Newcastle PCT 19,664 60.5 20.3 17.7 1.1 0.3 0.1 316 
			  5D8 North Tyneside PCT 16,312 56.4 23.9 17.7 1.5 0.3 0.2 299 
			  5D9 Hartlepool PCT 5,823 16.5 50.9 31.2 1.3 0.1 0.1 167 
			  5J9 Darlington PCT 7,947 34.7 21.8 36.5 6.6 0.3 0.1 88 
			  5KF Gateshead PCT 14,981 30.1 3.7 11.1 33.6 19.3 2.3 246 
			  5KG South Tyneside PCT 10,513 41.6 1.8 3.7 30.1 20.6 2.3 74 
			  5KL Sunderland Teaching PCT 17,426 75.0 3.1 9.2 6.2 6.1 0.5 151 
			  5KM Middlesbrough PCT 8,974 46.1 20.5 11.6 19.7 1.8 0.3 299 
			  5ND County Durham PCT 39,985 32.7 17.6 24.9 18.5 5.7 0.6 472 
			  5QR Redcar and Cleveland PCT 8,774 48.8 19.4 11.1 18.7 1.8 0.2 279 
			  5AG Northumberland Care Trust 2,217 50.7 28.4 18.3 1.8 0.5 0.1 23,232 
			
			 031  North West SHA 484,632 55.4 26.2 9.6 5.1 2.9 0.9 6,779 
			  5CC Blackburn with Darwen PCT 10,054 59.5 30.1 9.6 0.6 0.1 0.1 67 
			  5F5 Salford PCT 14,047 65.4 30.6 2.4 1.0 0.4 0.1 315 
			  5F7 Stockport PCT 22,009 89.6 8.5 1.3 0.3 0.1 0.2 368 
			  5HG Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 21,116 15.4 32.8 22.4 21.2 7.7 0.5 242 
			  5HP Blackpool PCT 8,474 97.3 2.2 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 104 
			  5HQ Bolton PCT 19,171 47.4 29.1 18.5 4.5 0.3 0.2 195 
			  5J2 Warrington PCT 15,129 38.7 51.0 9.5 0.6 0.1 0.1 246 
			  5J4 Knowsley PCT 10,059 71.5 24.7 2.7 0.7 0.3 0.1 107 
			  5J5 Oldham PCT 15,923 16.6 26.5 14.0 15.3 22.8 4.8 222 
			  5JX Bury PCT 15,085 16.4 15.3 28.2 23.3 15.3 1.5 218 
			  5LH Tameside and Glossop PCT 17,394 15.0 12.3 7.2 34.8 17.5 13.1 200 
			  5NE Cumbria PCT 35,551 60.9 30.9 7.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 374 
			  5NF North Lancashire PCT 19,153 90.3 7.7 1.9 0.1 0.0 0.1 263 
			  5NG Central Lancashire PCT 30,250 81.3 15.2 3.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 344 
			  5NH East Lancashire PCT 26,903 81.4 12.9 3.7 0.9 0.6 0.4 234 
			  5NJ Sefton PCT 17,527 59.9 36.4 3.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 222 
			  5NK Wirral PCT 22,316 52.0 23.1 22.9 1.6 0.2 0.1 216 
			  5NL Liverpool PCT 28,155 51.6 39.4 6.8 1.5 0.5 0.2 368 
			  5NM Halton and St. Helen's PCT 23,195 62.8 27.7 7.8 1.2 0.4 0.1 219 
			  5NN Western Cheshire PCT 17,672 48.6 44.5 6.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 298 
			  5NP Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 34,749 41.2 37.9 16.8 3.7 0.3 0.1 539 
			  5NQ Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT 15,816 16.1 15.5 29.5 23.1 14.6 1.3 187 
			  5NR Trafford PCT 14,544 70.0 28.3 1.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 448 
			  5NT Manchester PCT 30,340 66.5 29.2 2.3 0.8 0.7 0.5 783 
			
			 032  Yorkshire and the Humber SHA 326,566 65.4 24.2 7.6 1.9 0.5 0.4 7,680 
			  5AN North East Lincolnshire PCT 9,017 82.9 13.8 2.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 417 
			  5EF North Lincolnshire PCT 8,598 82.6 13.5 3.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 577 
			  5H8 Rotherham PCT 15,010 93.5 4.6 1.4 0.4 0.1 0.1 204 
			  5J6 Calderdale PCT 11,991 52.4 28.3 15.4 3.8 0.1 0.1 224 
			  5JE Barnsley PCT 15,545 14.1 46.7 29.4 7.0 0.8 2.0 278 
			  5N1 Leeds PCT 40,597 46.7 43.1 7.5 1.9 0.5 0.3 1,288 
			  5N2 Kirklees PCT 23,168 57.3 28.8 11.0 2.6 0.2 0.1 424 
			  5N3 Wakefield District PCT 24,685 16.0 53.9 25.3 3.8 0.7 0.2 380 
			  5N4 Sheffield PCT 34,972 98.3 1.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 510 
			  5N5 Doncaster PCT 21,879 98.2 1.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 187 
			  5NV North Yorkshire and York PCT 52,067 81.7 15.6 1.3 0.7 0.2 0.5 2,364 
			  5NW East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 22,778 72.1 16.5 7.9 1.9 1.4 0.2 342 
			  5NX Hull Teaching PCT 20,340 70.9 15.0 9.3 2.8 1.6 0.3 114 
			  5NY Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT 25,919 43.3 47.1 5.6 2.6 0.9 0.6 371 
			
			 033  East Midlands SHA 268,583 39.9 21.4 9.7 11.2 12.6 5.2 49,261 
			  5EM Nottingham City PCT 23,094 54.6 17.9 7.7 4.8 5.5 9.5 231 
			  5ET Bassetlaw PCT 8,291 96.6 1.9 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.7 90 
			  5N6 Derbyshire County PCT 54,074 36.5 40.8 12.2 6.4 3.1 1.1 594 
			  5N7 Derby City PCT 20,788 51.4 42.4 5.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 205 
			  5N8 Nottinghamshire County PCT 53,352 50.9 25.9 9.6 5.0 3.3 5.4 533 
			  5N9 Lincolnshire PCT 5,902 71.4 17.9 6.4 2.8 0.8 0.8 34,811 
			  5PA Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 44,860 10.6 4.2 11.7 29.4 33.6 10.6 506 
			  5PC Leicester City PCT 20,619 9.4 2.0 11.5 31.6 33.9 11.6 166 
			  5PD Northamptonshire PCT 37,603 48.2 13.9 9.0 7.8 18.2 2.9 12,125 
			
			 034  West Midlands SHA 372,212 55.6 25.7 11.0 5.3 1.5 1.0 8,271 
			  5CN Herefordshire PCT 11,013 79.0 17.7 2.5 0.5 0.2 0.0 201 
			  5M1 South Birmingham PCT 23,424 69.5 27.1 2.9 0.2 0.1 0.2 566 
			  5M2 Shropshire County PCT 20,474 51.9 42.7 4.7 0.5 0.1 0.2 282 
			  5M3 Walsall Teaching PCT 18,831 83.0 14.4 1.9 0.3 0.1 0.1 339 
			  5MD Coventry Teaching PCT 20,893 8.7 16.5 33.1 26.7 7.3 7.7 351 
			  5MK Telford and Wrekin PCT 11,493 49.2 41.0 8.1 1.3 0.2 0.2 115 
			  5MV Wolverhampton City PCT 17,307 21.5 46.9 24.0 4.6 1.6 1.2 224 
			  5MX Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT 17,436 57.6 30.4 8.7 2.0 0.7 0.6 520 
			  5PE Dudley PCT 23,937 21.5 31.6 29.0 15.1 2.4 0.5 343 
			  5PF Sandwell PCT 20,000 77.8 13.3 5.7 2.4 0.7 0.2 969 
			  5PG Birmingham East and North PCT 25,977 75.1 20.2 3.3 0.8 0.2 0.4 740 
			  5PH North Staffordshire PCT 15,126 85.8 10.8 2.1 0.6 0.2 0.4 135 
			  5PJ Stoke on Trent PCT 19,346 88.4 9.3 1.5 0.4 0.2 0.2 116 
			  5PK South Staffordshire PCT 42,767 66.3 24.1 6.9 1.2 0.5 1.1 521 
			  5PL Worcestershire PCT 28,539 46.1 25.9 19.2 6.6 1.9 0.3 1,088 
			  5PM Warwickshire PCT 40,519 39.8 26.1 15.2 13.3 4.2 1.5 1,091 
			  TAM Solihull Care Trust 15,130 42.4 47.3 6.6 2.6 0.8 0.3 670 
			
			 035  East of England SHA 341,727 40.4 36.4 15.9 4.8 1.4 1.0 39,102 
			  5GC Luton Teaching PCT 8,944 77.1 18.9 3.2 0.3 0.1 0.4 3,749 
			  5P1 South East Essex PCT 19,651 38.6 40.6 20.1 0.5 0.1 0.2 1,903 
			  5P2 Bedfordshire PCT 21,819 39.9 21.4 22.6 8.8 3.4 3.9 8,547 
			  5P3 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 29,183 23.8 39.2 31.1 3.2 1.7 1.1 6,149 
			  5P4 West Hertfordshire PCT 31,541 6.8 48.0 26.9 10.8 4.8 2.8 10,016 
			  5PN Peterborough PCT 10,263 72.5 14.0 8.3 5.0 0.2 0.1 162 
			  5PP Cambridgeshire PCT 37,297 59.3 36.6 2.9 0.9 0.1 0.2 1,238 
			  5PQ Norfolk PCT 42,727 21.2 56.2 20.3 2.1 0.2 0.1 2,054 
			  5PR Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching PCT 13,913 25.5 47.1 23.7 3.3 0.3 0.1 251 
			  5PT Suffolk PCT 42,895 52.5 44.1 2.8 0.4 0.1 0.1 807 
			  5PV West Essex PCT 15,655 41.7 39.0 11.9 5.5 1.2 0.7 1,183 
			  5PW North East Essex PCT 18,523 48.0 17.2 11.9 19.1 1.7 2.0 873 
			  5PX Mid Essex PCT 25,193 26.0 27.6 27.2 12.5 5.4 1.3 679 
			  5PY South West Essex PCT 24,123 79.8 10.7 6.7 1.0 0.3 1.4 1,491 
			
			 036  London SHA 600,406 32.1 29.2 21.8 10.2 4.4 2.3 25,563 
			  5A4 Havering PCT 15,887 32.3 26.7 32.1 7.1 1.1 0.7 236 
			  5A5 Kingston PCT 12,769 54.1 29.8 9.8 6.0 0.1 0.2 597 
			  5A7 Bromley PCT 26,535 23.8 46.6 28.0 1.3 0.1 0.2 882 
			  5A8 Greenwich Teaching PCT 18,994 34.7 35.1 25.0 3.8 0.8 0.6 606 
			  5A9 Barnet PCT 24,545 9.0 15.7 33.4 17.1 19.4 5.3 826 
			  5AT Hillingdon PCT 16,814 58.8 27.8 9.0 1.9 1.1 1.3 554 
			  5C1 Enfield PCT 19,321 9.9 13.8 35.0 21.1 16.5 3.8 617 
			  5C2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 10,109 31.2 22.0 34.5 10.6 1.1 0.7 248 
			  5C3 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 18,971 21.4 19.2 28.9 19.0 9.8 1.8 614 
			  5C4 Tower Hamlets PCT 14,688 22.2 19.2 29.4 19.2 9.0 1.1 546 
			  5C5 Newham PCT 20,156 13.8 18.1 32.2 23.4 11.0 1.5 394 
			  5C9 Haringey Teaching PCT 20,185 8.1 14.3 41.4 27.9 5.4 3.0 828 
			  5H1 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 13,436 5.3 18.2 21.1 20.0 15.7 19.9 1,533 
			  5HX Ealing PCT 25,805 10.8 25.9 21.2 25.0 12.1 4.9 1,703 
			  5HY Hounslow PCT 18,493 22.6 30.7 19.2 15.3 9.6 2.5 1,011 
			  5K5 Brent Teaching PCT 22,628 62.0 21.9 7.5 3.5 2.2 2.8 719 
			  5K6 Harrow PCT 14,951 69.6 23.0 4.4 1.3 0.9 0.9 381 
			  5K7 Camden PCT 16,357 25.6 33.4 30.5 6.7 1.6 2.2 1,157 
			  5K8 Islington PCT 18,621 17.0 35.1 41.4 5.0 0.8 0.7 917 
			  5K9 Croydon PCT 21,977 57.8 39.0 2.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 936 
			  5LA Kensington and Chelsea PCT 12,066 32.8 19.6 15.0 13.5 6.5 12.6 1,142 
			  5LC Westminster PCT 15,199 47.6 20.1 11.8 9.0 4.4 7.1 1,749 
			  5LD Lambeth PCT 29,826 28.3 42.1 19.3 8.5 1.0 0.8 1,186 
			  5LE Southwark PCT 24,436 33.8 42.4 15.4 7.0 0.8 0.6 735 
			  5LF Lewisham PCT 24,649 29.2 49.7 19.2 1.2 0.2 0.6 675 
			  5LG Wandsworth PCT 28,770 55.7 36.5 5.0 1.9 0.4 0.5 1,758 
			  5M6 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 14,763 53.5 26.5 10.1 6.6 2.1 1.1 959 
			  5M7 Sutton and Merton PCT 29,292 35.1 37.3 20.5 6.1 0.6 0.4 1,163 
			  5NA Redbridge PCT 15,902 26.1 17.9 41.4 11.6 1.7 1.3 264 
			  5NC Waltham Forest PCT 17,195 18.6 20.0 34.5 23.4 2.3 1.2 267 
			  TAK Bexley Care Trust 17,066 58.6 33.5 6.9 0.8 0.1 0.1 360 
			
			 037  South East Coast SHA 289,784 55.6 19.9 10.9 6.7 4.1 2.9 12,560 
			  5L3 Medway PCT 17,834 54.0 26.2 14.9 4.4 0.2 0.3 873 
			  5LQ Brighton and Hove City PCT 17,206 5.2 1.6 44.6 17.9 4.3 26.5 1,097 
			  5P5 Surrey PCT 78,343 71.5 14.0 2.0 5.4 6.2 0.8 3,458 
			  5P6 West Sussex PCT 48,591 25.5 29.6 14.6 16.1 10.9 3.3 1,718 
			  5P7 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 21,215 67.5 10.7 12.3 4.0 1.0 4.5 637 
			  5P8 Hastings and Rother PCT 11,818 98.7 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 192 
			  5P9 West Kent PCT 47,328 33.2 42.0 18.0 4.6 1.3 0.9 2,083 
			  5QA Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 47,449 85.3 10.8 2.7 0.9 0.2 0.1 2,502 
			
			 038  South Central SHA 241,280 39.1 29.3 17.8 9.2 3.5 1.1 35,820 
			  5CQ Milton Keynes PCT 14,171 6.7 10.7 30.9 21.2 23.4 7.2 3,533 
			  5FE Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 9,497 18.9 39.8 21.9 9.5 7.8 2.0 1,718 
			  5L1 Southampton City PCT 12,377 5.3 12.1 40.8 40.7 1.1 0.1 2,878 
			  5QC Hampshire PCT 69,022 19.5 32.9 30.7 14.3 2.3 0.3 14,500 
			  5QD Buckinghamshire PCT 31,515 58.2 16.6 9.0 7.3 6.8 2.1 7,620 
			  5QE Oxfordshire PCT 42,285 71.0 25.4 2.1 0.6 0.3 0.6 1,951 
			  5QF Berkshire West PCT 29,486 24.4 57.4 14.9 1.5 1.1 0.7 1,464 
			  5QG Berkshire East PCT 23,993 72.2 20.6 5.3 1.5 0.4 0.1 1,745 
			  5QT Isle of Wight PCT 8,934 51.1 37.6 10.2 1.0 0.1 0.0 411 
			
			 039  South West SHA 262,394 62.8 17.8 9.9 5.9 3.3 0.3 59,344 
			  5A3 South Gloucestershire PCT 14,463 73.9 24.2 1.1 0.4 0.3 0.0 336 
			  5F1 Plymouth Teaching PCT 15,893 55.9 27.7 14.6 1.6 0.1 0.2 278 
			  5FL Bath and North East Somerset PCT 10,392 38.4 8.6 19.1 15.4 18.2 0.2 316 
			  5K3 Swindon PCT 12,421 14.1 26.4 17.0 28.6 12.4 1.4 324 
			  5M8 North Somerset PCT 11,235 70.0 26.7 1.9 0.8 0.6 0.1 447 
			  5QH Gloucestershire PCT 3,656 35.2 40.6 17.3 4.5 1.5 0.8 34,265 
			  5QJ Bristol PCT 24,288 73.0 25.5 1.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 717 
			  5QK Wiltshire PCT 24,423 20.8 20.5 22.9 17.5 17.3 1.0 836 
			  5QL Somerset PCT 22,644 86.8 4.4 3.3 2.8 2.6 0.2 7,115 
			  5QM Dorset PCT 20,320 85.5 11.2 2.5 0.4 0.1 0.2 5,517 
			  5QN Bournemouth and Poole PCT 18,077 98.3 1.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 7,351 
			  5QP Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 33,428 25.7 28.8 31.0 13.6 0.7 0.2 716 
			  5QQ Devon PCT 42,455 88.5 9.0 2.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 978 
			  TAL Torbay Care Trust 8,699 77.1 22.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 148 
			 (1) Information on the time from taking a sample to the availability of a result are only available where the letters are produced by the PCT.  Source: The Information Centre for health and social care

Childbirth

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many babies in England were born underweight in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what assessment he has made of the principal causes are of babies being underweight at birth.

Ann Keen: In 2005-06, the latest year for which we have figures, 42,900 babies were born with birthweights of less than 2,500g. The major cause of low birthweight is low gestational age. This information is from "NHS Maternity Statistics, England 2005-06", a copy of which is available in the Library.

Dental Services: Portsmouth

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list NHS dentists in Portsmouth indicating which are registering new NHS patients.

Ann Keen: National Health Service Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Dental Services Division (DSD) can only provide validated information on the number of NHS dental practices within a constituency offering NHS dental care only at disproportionate cost. Some NHS treatment attracts patient charges.
	The number of dentists are available in Annex G of the 'NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report, England: 31 March 2006'. A copy of this report is available in the Library.
	Information is available at strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) area in England 31 March 1997 to 31 March 2006.
	Information is based on the old contractual arrangements. The report is also available on-line at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/dentistry/nhs-dental-activity-and-workforce-report-england-31-march-2006
	The number of NHS dentists year ending 31 March 2007 are available in Table E2 of Annex 3 of the 'NHS Dental Statistics for England 2006- 07 report'. Information is available at SNA and PCT area in England.
	Since April 2006, patients no longer have to be registered with a dental practice to receive NHS care and treatment.
	The closest equivalent current measure is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services ("patients seen") in a given area over a 24-month period, for that area. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years.
	The numbers of patients seen in the 24 month periods ending 31 March 2006 and 31 March 2007 are available in Table Cl of Annex 3 of the 'NHS Dental Statistics for England 2006-07 report'. Information is available at SHA and PCT area in England.
	A copy of this report is available in the Library and is also available at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dental0607

Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

Desmond Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what proportion of patients with coronary heart disease have been treated with  (a) coronary artery bypass operations,  (b) drug-eluting stents and  (c) bare metal stents in each year since guidance on the use of coronary artery stents was issued by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence in 2003 in (i) England, (ii) each strategic health authority and (iii) each NHS trust;
	(2)  what proportion of patients with coronary heart disease have received  (a) coronary artery bypass operations and  (b) percutaneous coronary interventions in each year since guidance on the use of coronary artery stents was issued by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence in 2003 in (i) England, (ii) each strategic health authority and (iii) each NHS trust.

Ann Keen: It is not possible for the Department to answer these questions because of the way relevant data are collected. Hospital episode statistics (HES) data counts each period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider, known as an "episode". These figures do not represent numbers of actual patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within a year.
	The information provided in the following table is HES data showing the number of episodes that patients with a coronary heart disease diagnosis have had. This may be of interest to the hon. Member.
	
		
			  Count of finished consultant episodes with a diagnosis mention of  coronary  heart disease and a procedure mention of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) or insertion of prosthesis: Data for NHS Hospitals, England for 2003-04 to 2005-06 
			   Finished consultant episodes 
			  Procedure  2005-06  2004-05  2003-04 
			 CABG 21,749 23,721 23,631 
			 PTCA 55,559 50,062 41,470 
			 Insertion of prosthesis into organ 44,190 37,425 30,938 
			  Notes: Ungrossed Data Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).  Finished Consultant Episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year.  All Diagnoses count of episodes These figures represent a count of all FCE's where the diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in a HES record. ICD10 Diagnosis code used: Coronary Heart Disease = 120-125  Assessing growth through time HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. During the years that these records have been collected the NHS there have been ongoing improvements in quality and coverage. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time.  Data Quality Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.  All Operations count of Episodes These figures represent a count of all FCE's where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002-03) operation fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if an operation is mentioned in more than one operation field of the record. Procedure codes used (OPCS 4.2): CABG = K40-46 PTCA = K49-50 Insertion of Prosthesis into Organ = Y02.2

Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

Tim Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital-acquired infections there were in  (a) the West Suffolk Hospital,  (b) the Walnuttree hospital, Sudbury and  (c) the Newmarket hospital in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested as information is collected by national health service trust only. The following tables show the number of hospital acquired infections in West Suffolk Hospital trust for the three year period 2004-06 which is the latest data available.
	
		
			   Name of NHS trust 
			  Number of  Clostridium difficile  reports for patients  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  West Suffolk Hospitals 
			  Aged  =65 years   
			 July to September 2006 99 107 
			 October to December 2006 115 97 
			 January to March 2007 143 9 
			 April to June 2007 119 95 
			
			  Aged  2-64 years   
			 April to June 2007 46 12 
			  Source: Health Protection Agency (HPA) 
		
	
	
		
			   Name of NHS trust 
			  Incidence of MRSA  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  West Suffolk Hospitals 
			 July to September 2006 23 8 
			 October to December 2006 20 6 
			 January to March 2007 14 5 
			 April to-June 2007 15 5 
			  Source: HPA 
		
	
	
		
			   Name of NHS trust 
			  GRE( 1)  bacteraemia reports  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  West Suffolk Hospitals 
			 1 October 2003 to 30 September 2004 41 5 
			 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005 46 2 
			 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006 61 7 
			 (1) Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococci blood stream infections  Source: HPA

Industrial Diseases

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the role of miners' welfares in combating diseases, with particular reference to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Ann Keen: In the financial year commencing 1 April 2007 the Department gave £34,000 from their Section 64 scheme to the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation for them to provide personal, community and social support services to mining and ex-mining communities and their residents, for those with problems resulting from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
	The Department is also currently developing a national services framework for COPD, which will result in national standards and markers of good practise. It will improve the quality of and access to COPD services, reducing inequalities and reduce health care utilisation costs.
	The advice will pay particular attention to the need to reduce variations in outcomes, including those associated with ethnicity, social deprivation and social exclusion.
	An expert reference group will produce advice for Ministers by January/February 2008. The COPD NSF will be published in 2008 with implementation at the start of 2009.

Industrial Diseases

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of regional variations in the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ann Keen: The quality and outcomes framework (QOF) part of the General Medical Services contract requires practices to record patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The prevalence in each primary care trust (PCT) for the year 2006-07 are shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease unadjusted prevalence 
			  PCT code  PCT name  Percentage 
			 5HG Ashton Leigh and Wigan PCT 1.8 
			 5C2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 1.2 
			 5A9 Barnet PCT 0.8 
			 5JE Barnsley PCT 2.5 
			 5ET Bassetlaw 2.0 
			 5FL Bath and North East Somerset PCT 1.2 
			 5P2 Bedfordshire PCT 1.1 
			 5QG Berkshire East PCT 0.9 
			 5QF Berkshire West PCT 0.9 
			 TAK Bexley Care Trust 1.3 
			 5PG Birmingham East and North PCT 1.4 
			 5GC Blackburn with Darwen PCT 1.9 
			 5HP Blackpool PCT 2.3 
			 5HQ Bolton PCT 1.8 
			 5QN Bournemouth and Poole PCT 1.3 
			 5NY Bradford and Airedale PCT 1.7 
			 5K5 Brent PCT 0.6 
			 5LQ Brighton and Hove City Teaching PCT 1.0 
			 5QJ Bristol PCT 1.5 
			 5A7 Bromley PCT 1.1 
			 5QD Buckinghamshire PCT 1.0 
			 5JX Bury PCT 1.7 
			 5J6 Calderdale 1.6 
			 5PP Cambridgeshire PCT 1.2 
			 5K7 Camden PCT 0.8 
			 5NP Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 1.5 
			 5NG Central Lancs PCT 1.6 
			 5C3 City and Hackney Primary Care Team 0.8 
			 5QP Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 1.6 
			 5ND County Durham PCT 2.3 
			 5MD Coventry PCT 1.4 
			 5K9 Croydon PCT 0.7 
			 5NE Cumbria PCT 1.9 
			 5J9 Darlington PCT 1.8 
			 5N7 Derby City PCT 1.5 
			 5N6 Derbyshire County PCT 1.7 
			 5QQ Devon PCT 1.4 
			 5N5 Doncaster PCT 2.4 
			 5QM Dorset PCT 1.4 
			 5PE Dudley PCT 1.3 
			 5HX Ealing PCT 0.7 
			 5P3 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 1.1 
			 5NH East Lancs PCT 2.0 
			 5NW East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 1.6 
			 5P7 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 1.4 
			 5QA Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 1.6 
			 5C1 Enfield PCT 0.8 
			 5KF Gateshead PCT 2.2 
			 5QH Gloucestershire PCT 1.3 
			 5PR Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching PCT 1.9 
			 5A8 Greenwich PCT 1.1 
			 5NM Halton and St. Helens PCT 2.2 
			 5H1 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 1.0 
			 5QC Hampshire PCT 1.1 
			 5C9 Haringey PCT 0.7 
			 5K6 Harrow PCT 0.7 
			 5D9 Hartlepool PCT 2.2 
			 5P8 Hastings and Rother PCT 1.5 
			 5A4 Havering PCT 1.4 
			 5MX Heart of Birmingham PCT 0.7 
			 5CN Herefordshire PCT 1.3 
			 5NQ Heywood Middleton and Rochdale PCT 1.7 
			 5AT Hillingdon PCT 1.1 
			 5HY Hounslow PCT 0.7 
			 5NX Hull PCT 1.7 
			 5QT Isle of Wight NHS PCT 1.4 
			 5K8 Islington PCT 1.1 
			 5LA Kensington and Chelsea PCT 0.8 
			 5A5 Kingston 0.8 
			 5N2 Kirklees PCT 1.4 
			 5J4 Knowsley 2.8 
			 5LD Lambeth PCT 0.7 
			 5N1 Leeds PCT 1.6 
			 5PC Leicester City PCT 1.1 
			 5PA Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 1.2 
			 5LF Lewisham PCT 1.0 
			 5N9 Lincolnshire PCT 1.8 
			 5NL Liverpool PCT 2.3 
			 5GC Luton 1.0 
			 5NT Manchester PCT 1.8 
			 5L3 Medway PCT 1.3 
			 5PX Mid Essex PCT 0.9 
			 5KM Middlesbrough PCT 2.4 
			 5CQ Milton Keynes PCT 1.2 
			 5D7 Newcastle upon Tyne PCT 1.9 
			 5C5 Newham Primary Care Team 0.8 
			 5PQ Norfolk PCT 1.6 
			 5PW North East Essex PCT 1.4 
			 SAN North East Lincolnshire PCT 1.9 
			 5NF North Lancs PCT 1.9 
			 5EF North Lincolnshire PCT 1.7 
			 5M8 North Somerset PCT 1.5 
			 5PH North Staffordshire PCT 1.7 
			 5E1 North Tees PCT 1.9 
			 5D8 North Tyneside PCT 2.0 
			 5NV North Yorkshire and York PCT 1.4 
			 5PD Northamptonshire PCT 1.3 
			 TAC Northumberland Care Trust 2.2 
			 5EM Nottingham City PCT 1.4 
			 5N8 Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT 1.6 
			 5J5 Oldham PCT 1.7 
			 5QE Oxfordshire PCT 1.0 
			 5PN Peterborough PCT 1.3 
			 5F1 Plymouth PCT 1.5 
			 5FE Portsmouth City PCT 1.4 
			 5NA Redbridge PCT 0.7 
			 5QR Redcar and Cleveland PCT 2.4 
			 5M6 Richmond and Twickenham 0.9 
			 5H8 Rotherham PCT 2.2 
			 5F5 Salford PCT 2.3 
			 5PF Sandwell PCT 1.7 
			 5NJ Sefton PCT 2.1 
			 5N4 Sheffield PCT 1.6 
			 5M2 Shropshire County PCT 1.5 
			 TAM Solihull Care Trust 1.4 
			 5QL Somerset PCT 1.5 
			 5M1 South Birmingham PCT 1.5 
			 5P1 South East Essex PCT 1.4 
			 5A3 South Gloucestershire PCT 1.2 
			 5PK South Staffordshire PCT 1.4 
			 5KG South Tyneside PCT 2.9 
			 5PY South West Essex PCT 1.4 
			 5L1 Southampton City PCT 1.6 
			 5LE Southwark PCT 1.1 
			 5F7 Stockport PCT 1.6 
			 5PJ Stoke-on-Trent PCT 1.8 
			 5PT Suffolk PCT 1.3 
			 5KL Sunderland Teaching PCT 2.8 
			 5P5 Surrey PCT 1.0 
			 5M7 Sutton and Merton PCT 1.0 
			 5K3 Swindon PCT 1.5 
			 5LH Tameside and Glossop PCT 2.1 
			 5MK Telford and Wrekin PCT 1.6 
			 TAL Torbay Care Trust 1.7 
			 5C4 Tower Hamlets Primary Care Team 1.2 
			 5NR Trafford PCT 1.4 
			 5N3 Wakefield District PCT 2.3 
			 5M3 Walsall Teaching PCT 1.5 
			 5NC Waltham Forest PCT 0.8 
			 5LG Wandsworth PCT 0.8 
			 5J2 Warrington PCT 1.6 
			 5PM Warwickshire PCT 1.2 
			 5PV West Essex PCT 1.2 
			 5P4 West Hertfordshire PCT 1.1 
			 5P9 West Kent PCT 1.2 
			 5P6 West Sussex PCT 1.3 
			 5NN Western Cheshire PCT 1.5 
			 5LC Westminster PCT 0.7 
			 5QK Wiltshire PCT 1.3 
			 5NK Wirral PCT 2.2 
			 5MV Wolverhampton City PCT 1.4 
			 5PL Worcestershire PCT 1.3 
			  Notes: 1.Coverage of QOF. Patients will only contribute to the figures in QOF if they are registered with a general practice participating in QOF. 2.The prevalence is the number of patients on the COPD register divided by the total number of patients expressed as a percentage.

Skin Cancer

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of melanoma have been reported in each primary care trust area in each year since 1997.  [Official Report, 1 May 2008, Vol. 475, c. 7MC.]

Angela Eagle: I have been asked to reply.
	The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
	 Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 7 January 2008:
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of melanoma have been reported in each year since 1997, broken down by primary care trust area. (174681)
	The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) for England are for the year 2004. Numbers of cases of melanoma in England by primary care trust in each year since 1997 are given in Table 1 below.
	
		
			  Table  1 : Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of malignant melanoma of skin( 1) , persons, England and primary care organisations( 2,3)  within strategic health authority, 1997-2004 
			  Area  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004 
			 England 5,025 5,134 5,315 5,963 6,365 6,615 6,874 7,363 
			  
			  North East 
			 County Durham 48 41 47 60 76 82 72 71 
			 Darlington 11 8 29 19 14 22 27 14 
			 Gateshead 21 15 12 22 26 30 23 17 
			 Hartlepool 5 5 7 12 5 9 8 10 
			 Middlesbrough 13 13 11 12 8 16 22 17 
			 Newcastle 22 19 27 23 35 17 24 24 
			 North Tees 12 10 13 9 18 25 14 22 
			 North Tyneside 12 23 23 23 24 23 26 26 
			 Northumberland 26 29 46 23 34 44 41 50 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 14 9 12 14 15 22 17 20 
			 South Tyneside 12 10 10 9 17 16 14 19 
			 Sunderland Teaching 25 26 46 23 36 41 30 37 
			  
			  North West 
			 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 21 22 18 35 27 34 33 48 
			 Blackburn with Darwen 15 5 12 15 7 17 11 15 
			 Blackpool 14 15 23 14 21 15 23 17 
			 Bolton 23 21 22 32 34 24 23 33 
			 Bury 19 12 19 18 12 32 19 25 
			 Central and Eastern Cheshire 43 59 50 67 73 69 62 85 
			 Central Lancashire 51 41 50 57 47 77 78 73 
			 Cumbria 68 61 72 68 57 74 75 79 
			 East Lancashire 33 37 43 36 42 55 59 61 
			 Halton and St. Helens 27 22 31 25 42 46 32 31 
			 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 17 15 20 22 22 15 13 20 
			 Knowsley 12 10 15 18 17 16 22 23 
			 Liverpool 36 40 32 45 45 42 55 70 
			 Manchester 27 25 28 30 36 44 21 26 
			 North Lancashire 41 34 45 60 54 60 52 48 
			 Oldham 14 22 18 14 16 26 22 25 
			 Salford 17 15 29 16 16 11 15 26 
			 Sefton 42 21 39 36 51 43 56 41 
			 Stockport 32 46 37 50 40 44 49 47 
			 Tameside and Glossop 15 27 18 26 25 29 34 42 
			 Trafford 28 25 29 41 38 37 33 41 
			 Warrington 12 25 18 15 16 24 21 20 
			 Western Cheshire 11 11 27 41 39 30 32 42 
			 Wirral 31 29 29 38 39 43 38 34 
			  
			  Yorkshire and the Humber 
			 Barnsley 15 14 20 7 10 21 8 13 
			 Bradford and Airedale 42 39 44 44 47 44 48 53 
			 Calderdale 21 18 24 17 22 24 26 30 
			 Doncaster 17 20 14 36 24 41 25 42 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 26 45 22 36 51 51 56 50 
			 Hull 15 15 13 15 15 16 17 15 
			 Leeds 79 76 84 72 109 105 126 122 
			 North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus 16 12 12 18 16 16 13 23 
			 North Lincolnshire 3 10 14 18 15 21 13 14 
			 North Yorkshire and York 82 109 97 90 126 132 135 134 
			 Rotherham 14 24 21 16 26 19 30 65 
			 Sheffield 51 34 37 52 66 48 82 124 
			 Wakefield District 22 28 28 34 46 42 54 39 
			  
			  East Midlands 
			 Bassetlaw 9 19 13 12 14 11 12 10 
			 Derby City 26 23 20 29 28 22 29 39 
			 Derbyshire County 57 57 68 74 84 96 91 113 
			 Leicester City 23 16 16 17 35 19 20 15 
			 Leicestershire County and Rutland 59 39 58 91 88 76 92 96 
			 Lincolnshire 43 63 56 74 78 79 68 114 
			 Northamptonshire 75 86 84 98 92 100 98 94 
			 Nottingham City 22 21 18 15 18 24 17 27 
			 Nottinghamshire County 66 72 44 82 59 86 97 123 
			  
			  West Midlands 
			 Birmingham East and North 28 23 21 31 39 46 35 40 
			 Coventry Teaching 26 28 24 30 32 27 39 48 
			 Dudley 16 27 38 43 34 30 38 52 
			 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 10 10 8 7 8 7 9 14 
			 Herefordshire 19 24 31 26 23 30 31 30 
			 North Staffordshire 18 22 24 29 30 31 19 28 
			 Sandwell 21 20 17 22 22 19 26 24 
			 Shropshire County 38 32 34 22 37 26 41 60 
			 Solihull 26 24 28 34 36 26 38 49 
			 South Birmingham 24 33 21 27 25 43 40 46 
			 South Staffordshire 59 84 71 56 74 102 81 68 
			 Stoke on Trent 18 15 29 19 41 22 13 24 
			 Telford and Wrekin 10 18 16 13 13 16 17 18 
			 Walsall Teaching 17 21 20 19 19 30 25 23 
			 Warwickshire 54 67 59 64 87 86 91 99 
			 Wolverhampton City 20 15 20 20 17 24 17 23 
			 Worcestershire 66 69 66 69 92 93 101 112 
			  
			  East of England 
			 Bedfordshire 38 54 52 50 57 47 36 54 
			 Cambridgeshire 48 68 80 85 86 84 100 71 
			 East and North Hertfordshire 36 47 49 51 50 48 75 73 
			 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 29 32 33 27 27 31 43 39 
			 Luton 16 12 18 18 24 21 14 15 
			 Mid Essex 50 32 33 49 26 27 37 35 
			 Norfolk 87 87 92 99 110 105 126 137 
			 North East Essex 20 47 47 64 50 50 50 46 
			 Peterborough 9 22 14 16 19 22 20 19 
			 South East Essex 34 42 53 45 29 28 57 50 
			 South West Essex 39 31 27 32 31 39 33 40 
			 Suffolk 58 75 71 66 82 89 105 93 
			 West Essex 22 37 33 29 28 35 34 16 
			 West Hertfordshire 55 37 56 57 57 54 55 39 
			  
			  London 
			 Barking and Dagenham 10 14 10 16 17 10 11 13 
			 Barnet 27 24 21 23 20 23 24 31 
			 Bexley 23 33 27 33 20 23 24 22 
			 Brent Teaching 8 13 9 18 14 15 18 10 
			 Bromley 49 42 51 31 22 24 11 8 
			 Camden 19 30 15 17 13 22 13 18 
			 City and Hackney Teaching 8 7 12 11 11 11 15 10 
			 Croydon 29 27 43 36 37 26 48 37 
			 Ealing 12 19 19 14 21 12 18 13 
			 Enfield 11 17 15 21 19 11 22 14 
			 Greenwich Teaching 11 14 17 19 21 13 14 13 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 6 21 9 9 11 6 6 15 
			 Haringey Teaching 12 21 9 12 11 11 16 13 
			 Harrow 18 10 14 14 5 8 14 16 
			 Havering 19 24 28 32 34 30 32 19 
			 Hillingdon 11 12 9 14 10 12 5 14 
			 Hounslow 10 6 13 7 8 16 13 12 
			 Islington 20 10 12 14 14 10 13 13 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 14 16 10 14 18 15 20 14 
			 Kingston 15 18 11 19 17 24 13 21 
			 Lambeth 12 15 19 25 15 18 14 20 
			 Lewisham 19 12 26 14 15 13 11 18 
			 Newham 4 8 (4)— 11 5 5 5 5 
			 Redbridge 13 11 10 15 9 7 25 19 
			 Richmond and Twickenham 24 21 16 18 29 17 22 24 
			 Southwark 14 5 19 7 16 4 10 17 
			 Sutton and Merton 40 37 30 55 38 40 46 43 
			 Tower Hamlets 6 4 10 6 5 8 7 7 
			 Waltham Forest 13 14 8 18 6 9 19 9 
			 Wandsworth 22 29 24 29 34 26 29 32 
			 Westminster 7 14 15 14 16 11 29 17 
			  
			  South East Coast 
			 Brighton and Hove City 34 35 38 35 32 44 33 43 
			 East Sussex Downs and Weald 47 52 55 66 56 62 68 41 
			 Eastern and Coastal Kent 66 56 68 59 48 59 96 113 
			 Hastings and Rother 23 31 23 22 14 11 12 8 
			 Medway 35 21 26 26 37 32 43 30 
			 Surrey 141 116 102 158 130 152 133 160 
			 West Kent 72 62 68 71 73 65 74 83 
			 West Sussex 116 87 106 122 128 127 117 127 
			  
			  South Central 
			 Berkshire East 46 41 39 44 43 43 47 54 
			 Berkshire West 47 61 69 71 81 70 57 71 
			 Buckinghamshire 64 73 72 81 82 93 79 95 
			 Hampshire 195 177 136 207 211 278 273 260 
			 Isle of Wight NHS 26 26 12 30 34 31 44 40 
			 Milton Keynes 28 17 27 31 33 30 23 37 
			 Oxfordshire 73 78 108 129 138 152 109 147 
			 Portsmouth City Teaching 30 29 15 25 39 34 31 41 
			 Southampton City 28 13 31 31 37 46 28 41 
			  
			  South West 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 34 25 34 33 44 23 36 36 
			 Bournemouth and Poole 57 43 56 61 66 82 91 84 
			 Bristol 37 36 49 42 56 45 58 74 
			 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 100 119 87 113 129 130 142 119 
			 Devon 137 112 122 152 161 190 186 214 
			 Dorset 75 57 86 92 118 102 104 125 
			 Gloucestershire 44 59 72 84 92 86 81 121 
			 North Somerset 30 16 20 30 42 45 40 47 
			 North Staffordshire 18 22 24 29 30 31 19 28 
			 Plymouth Teaching 46 37 23 38 60 60 66 74 
			 Somerset 74 69 78 100 114 109 149 119 
			 South Gloucestershire 28 30 28 26 36 24 46 48 
			 Swindon 16 24 31 29 28 25 23 26 
			 Torbay 19 43 21 28 39 39 37 36 
			 Wiltshire 62 64 50 74 97 101 103 110 
			 (1) Malignant melanoma of skin is defined as code C43 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) (2) Based on NHS boundaries as of 2007. (3) Each primary care organisation (PCO) is listed under the strategic health authority (SHA) to which it reports. The 152 primary care organisations include 148 primary care trusts (PCTs), and four care organisations (COs). (4) Numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality.  Source: Office for National Statistics

Valuation Office

Eric Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's technical presentation entitled The Dating Game.

Jane Kennedy: 'The Dating Game' is not a technical presentation. It is an exercise used for internal staff training purposes. A copy has been placed in the Library of the House.

Valuation Office

Eric Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Valuation Office Agency spent on purchasing floodplain polygons from the Environment Agency; and what use is made of the data for valuation purposes.

Jane Kennedy: The Valuation Office Agency was provided with floodplain polygon data at no charge. The data is not currently used for valuation purposes.